People in the testing community seem to love sharing their knowledge and experience. I’ve included just a few resources here, kicking off – of course – with my own blog!
Lee’s blog: Rockin’ and Testing All Over The World
Essential reading
On testing
- Michael Bolton Testing is…
- James Bach & Michael Bolton Testing and Checking refined
- Michael Bolton Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business
- Ben Kelly Testing – An Activity, Not A Role
Exploratory testing
- James Bach & Michael Bolton Exploratory Testing 3.0
- James Bach Exploratory Testing
- Cem Kaner BBST Foundations lecture on Exploratory Testing
- Michael Bolton Resources on Exploratory Testing
- Testing Times (Anne-Marie Charrett) Exploratory Testing References
- Jon & James Bach Session-Based Test Management
- Huib Schoots Great Resources (Exploratory) Testing
- Ministry of Testing Exploratory Testing resources:
Heuristics & oracles
- Michael Bolton’s heuristics blog posts and oracles blog posts
- James Bach’s heuristics blog posts
- Lee Hawkins (guest blog for TestBuddy) Cultivate Your Credibility with Oracles and Heuristics
- Michael Bolton Testing Without A Map
- Michael Bolton FEW HICCUPPS
- Elisabeth Hendrickson Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
- Richard Bradshaw & Sarah Deery Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap!
- Rikard Edgren 77 Test Idea Triggers
- Cem Kaner 300 common software errors (Appendix to the book “Testing Computer Software”)
- TestInsane Mindmaps of test ideas
- Katrina Clokie Heuristics and Oracles
Books
Testing
- Elisabeth Hendrickson Explore It!
- Cem Kaner, James Bach & Bret Pettichord Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach
- Gerald M. Weinberg Perfect Software: And Other Illusions About Testing
- Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory Agile Testing / More Agile Testing
Other fields
- Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow
- Gerald M. Weinberg An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
- Laurent Bossavit The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
- Malcolm Gladwell Blink
